WarpGirl wrote:Honeybee wrote:I think a good number of Americans are familiar with New Orleans and Louisiana to at least know of Zydeco.
Well maybe, but what about the international crowd on this board???????????
Never heard of it.
Rigil Kent wrote:Plus, it honestly seems like the only music that continues to exist in the Trek verse is classical - can anyone point me to a single instance (apart from the jazz in "Fusion" which is the sole exception I can think of) when they're listening to human music and it isn't Berlioz or Mozart or Beethoven? I can't think of anything resembling rock, or country, or rap, or ... well, you get the point.
That's because of copyright issues. Most of the contemporary (to us viewers) 20th century music is still copyrighted, and the studio didn't want to shell out the money to have it appear on the shows. Thus, the non-copyrighted classical music.